the orchestra’s 2015 Reveries and Passions
Festival. He then travels to Europe to perform
with the Frankfurter Museumsorchester
(Venzago), Dresden Philharmonic (de Billy),
and the Munich Philharmonic (Bychkov),
among others, before ending the season in dramatic fashion with Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy
with the Orchestre de L’Opéra de Paris under
the baton of Music Director Philippe Jordan.
A distinguished recording artist, Jean-Yves
Thibaudet has been nominated for two
Grammy
Awards
and
won
the
Schallplattenpreis, the Diapason d’Or, Choc du
Monde de la Musique, a Gramophone Award,
two Echo awards, and the Edison Prize. In
2010 he released Gershwin, featuring big jazz
band orchestrations of Rhapsody in Blue, variations on “I Got Rhythm,” and Concerto in F
live with the Baltimore Symphony and Music
Director Marin Alsop. On his Grammy-nominated recording Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerti
Nos. 2 and 5, released in 2007, Thibaudet is
joined by long-standing collaborator Charles
Dutoit and the Orchestre de la Suisse
Romande. Thibaudet’s Aria—Opera Without
Words, which was released the same year, features transcriptions of arias by Saint-Saëns, R.
Strauss, Gluck, Korngold, Bellini, J. Strauss II,
Grainger, and Puccini; some of the transcriptions are by Mikhashoff, Sgambati, and
Brassin, and others are Thibaudet’s own.
Among his other recordings are Satie: The
Complete Solo Piano Music and the jazz albums
Reflections on Duke: Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays
the Music of Duke Ellington and Conversations
with Bill Evans, his tribute to two of jazz history’s legends.

abOut thE artIStS

the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in
November, reaching both East and West
coasts with a grand finale at Carnegie Hall,
where he performs Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.
2. The end of the year is a whirlwind of
Gershwin, Ravel, and Liszt with the Radio
Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the Berlin
Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Gürzenich
Orchestra Cologne.
In the new year, audiences can hear Mr.
Thibaudet play MacMillan’s Piano Concerto
No. 3, which he premiered in 2011, with the
St. Louis Symphony and New York
Philharmonic, both conducted by Stéphane
Denève, and then Liszt with the Cleveland
Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic.
After playing a duo recital with Gautier
Capuçon in his native France at the Festival de
Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, Mr. Thibaudet
returns to the United States to play Ravel’s
Piano Concerto in G major—one of his signature pieces from the French repertoire for
which he is renowned—with the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra and the Boston
Symphony Orchestra under Bernard
Haitink’s direction, in addition to Poulenc and
Fauré with the Boston Symphony Chamber
Players. Under Michael Tilsons Thomas’
baton, he performs Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety
in San Francisco, where he celebrates Thomas’
70th birthday earlier in the year by playing the
Liszt Hexaméron with Emanuel Ax, Jeremy
Denk, Yuja Wang, and Marc-André
Hamelin. Mr. Thibaudet performs Ravel’s
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles
Philharmonic before interpreting both the
Ravel Piano Concerto and Messiaen’s
Turangalîla with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen as part of

Known for his style and elegance on and off
the traditional concert stage, Thibaudet has
9